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Summary
Lightweight and open source web analytics. No cookies and fully compliant with GDPR, CCPA and PECR. Made and hosted in the EU, on European cloud infrastructure.
Hotjar provides Product Experience Insights about your website that show how users behave and what they feel strongly about, so product teams can deliver real value to them.
Enterprise-level web analytics. Adobe Analytics lets you mix, match, and analyze data from any digital point in the customer journey.
Fullstory is a digital experience analytics platform that combines session replay, product analytics and AI-generated insights, with a permanent free plan.
Pros
- Lightweight
- Open-source
- Cookieless
- EU cloud infrastructure
- Comes with great heatmaps
- Includes session recordings
- Good polling function
- Hotjar features exit surveys
- Great segmentation
- Good video tracking
- Customizable
- Easy report creation
- Permanent free plan with session replay
- Choice of EU or US data center
- SOC 2 and ISO 27001, 27701 and 42001 certifications
- Warehouse sync to BigQuery, Snowflake and Redshift
Cons
- Limited features
- No audience reporting features
- Hotjar is not available for mobile
- Steep pricing for large organisations
- Hard to exclude URLs from reports
- Pricing can be quite steep
- Tech support can be improved
- Can be difficult to implement
- Can be challenging to get educated
- Paid prices not published
- Dashboards and StoryAI not in the free plan
- Alerts and retention reports need an Advanced or Enterprise plan
- Moving to the EU data center means opening a new account
Pricing information
Starting Price
| 10k page views | $9 p/m |
| Enterprise | On req. |
| 200k page views | $29 p/m |
| 100k page views | $19 p/m |
| 500k page views | $49 p/m |
| 1M page views | $69 p/m |
| 2M page views | $89 p/m |
| 5M page views | $129 p/m |
| 10M page views | $169 p/m |
| Basic | Free |
| Plus | $49+ p/m |
| Business | On req. |
| Scale | On req. |
| Select | On req. |
| Prime | On req. |
| Ultimate | On req. |
| FullstoryFree | Free |
| Business | On req. |
| Advanced | On req. |
| Enterprise | On req. |
Free trial period
30 days
Free plan
Free plan
Free plan
Account Management
Trackable Items
1-10+ depending on plan
Unlimited
Unlimited
User Seats
1-10+ depending on plan
1
Unlimited
10 on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Account Security
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
- Single Sign-on
- Two-factor Authentication
Data Processing
Data Center Locations
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
- European Economic Area (EEA)
- United States
Software Hosting
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
- Public Cloud
- Private Cloud
- On-Premise
Data Ownership
You
Hotjar
Adobe Analytics
You
Data Freshness
Realtime
30 minutes
2 hours
Data Retention
3-5+ years depending on plan
12 months
25 months by default
12 months on FullstoryFree, paid plans not published
Data Sampling
Limited data sampling in reports with over 20M pageviews
Some Audience Manager reports display results sampled data
Data Import
e.g. import GA data
Send user data to Hotjar to enhance analysis
Though data sources, API or data connectors
Browser and Server APIs, Segment and Tealium integrations
Data Export
Export your data to CSV
Export recording meta data
Through data feeds, a data warehouse or FTP and SFTP
Anywhere Warehouse (hourly sync to BigQuery, Redshift, Snowflake), add-on
Compliance
- GDPR
- CCPA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
- GDPR
- CCPA
- HIPAA
- PECR
- GDPR
- CCPA
Cookieless
Plausible is cookieless by default.
Hotjar relies on first-party cookies.
Adobe uses tracking cookies
Capture needs the first-party fs_uid cookie
Alerts & Automation
Custom Alerts
Traffic spike notifications through Slack or email
in the interface, via e-mail or Slack
Via e-mail or SMS
Metric, segment and opportunity alerts by email, in-app, Slack, Teams; Advanced and Enterprise
Email Reports
Weekly or monthly email reporting
e.g. daily survey responses reports
Flexible scheduled reporting
Reporting
Trend Reporting
Metric trends
Device Reporting
Device type, browser & OS
See on which device the user was
Device types, OS, OS versions & mobile carriers
Device breakdown
Funnel Reporting
Discover why users drop off
Bar chart funnel report
Funnels and conversions
User Flow Reporting
Basic reporting by looking at Entry & Exit pages
Fallout & Flow (Sankey chart) reports
Journey maps, page flows
Segmentation
Use filters to segment your audience
Create custom filters for recordings
Advanced segments with Segment builder & Segment manager
User segments
Cohort Reports
Churn, rolling & latency tables
Retention Reporting
Retention cohort report
Advanced and Enterprise
Attribution Reporting
Apply to metrics, breakdowns or compare models
Ecommerce Reporting
Ecommerce revenue tracking
Very flexible ecommerce reporting
Order Completed and Product Purchased events
User Experience Features
Heatmaps
Unlimited
Called activity map
Click and scroll maps
Session Recordings
Record all interaction with your site
Session replay, included in FullstoryFree
A/B Testing
No A/B testing tool only integrations
A/B experiments in Guides and Surveys add-on; Optimizely integration
User Feedback
Place NPS ratings or a survey pop-up on every page
Guides and Surveys add-on
Customizability
Custom Properties
Custom Properties (Business plan and above)
Custom event and user properties
Custom Metrics
Unlimited calculated metrics
Custom calculations
Custom Reports
Reports in Analysis workspace are customisable
Dashboards, paid plans
Custom Events
By means of adding CSS classes
Track and filter sessions & heatmaps
Up to 1.000 success events
Annotations
Hotjar does not have annotations
Available in Workspace
Support
Support description
Plausible offers extensive documentation which is the first place to find answers. Still haven't found what you're looking for? Contact their email support for knowledgable support.
Hotjar offers extensive documentation and a ticketing support system. Most requests are answered within 1-2 business days, but often faster.
The support of Adobe Analytics consists of an expansive knowledge base and an online community. Phone and chat options exist for certain user types. Besides that, they offer many training options and tutorials.
Support is by email and support ticket during regional weekday business hours, with a help center and community forum. Free plan tickets have a 2 business day response target, paying customers 1 business day. A Premium Support add-on gives 24/7 critical support. The FullstoryFree help article lists email support as a paid plan feature, while the support hours article lists a response target for free plan customers.
Support Options
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community
- Phone
- Live Chat
- Ticketing system
- Knowledge base
- Community